Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Northgate High School is the nearest published school at 775 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NR20 4GN
Dereham Neatherd · Breckland · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dereham Neatherd
- Local authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk
- Postcode district
- NR20
- Postcode sector
- NR20 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NR20 4GN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2025
- Terminated
- 1 September 2025
- Postcode area
- NR
- Postcode district
- NR20
- Postcode sector
- NR20 4
- Latitude
- 52.688741
- Longitude
- 0.953809
- British National Grid easting
- 599,732
- British National Grid northing
- 314,208
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Breckland · E07000143
- Electoral ward
- Dereham Neatherd · E05010242
- Parish or community
- E04006108
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Norfolk · E14001365
- Output area
- E00134284
- Lower layer super output area
- Breckland 003C · E01026430
- Middle layer super output area
- Breckland 003 · E02005505
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 775 m
Northgate High School
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- 873 m
King's Park Infant School, Dereham
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- 993 m
Dereham Neatherd High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,213
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 456
- Shoplifting 228
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Criminal damage and arson 100
- Public order 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NR20 4 residents
- 7,241
Age bands in NR20 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
1,028 residents
681 residents
1,443 residents
1,966 residents
2,050 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THEATRE ROYAL SURGERY
27 THEATRE STREET, DEREHAM, NR19 2EN
ODS code D82050
948 m
ORCHARD SURGERY
COMMERCIAL ROAD, EAST DEREHAM, DEREHAM, NR19 1AE
ODS code D82020
1.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Dereham
- 0.7 miles
Dereham (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Dereham
- 10.3 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
MET · Wymondham
- 10.3 miles
Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway)
PLT · Wymondham
- 11.0 miles
Wymondham Rail Station
RLY · Wymondham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Breckland 003C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,183 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,213 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 456 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.